Hazardous waste must be disposed of in an appropriate hazardous waste storage container to protect workers, the environment and your business from getting fined.
Proper disposal requires knowing which materials are toxic, what they do, the types of containers needed for storing the material and the type of PPE that must be used.
The type of hazardous waste impacts the type of storage container used. Only containers approved by OSHA may store flammable liquids. Depending on the chemical, container materials include metal, plastic or glass.
In general, metal is most widely used unless metal can adversely affect the container’s contents or the container’s contents could erode the metal.
Medical waste containers should be capable of resisting punctures and leaks and stand up to fire damage and tumbling over and should be tamper proof. With medical waste containers, it’s important to consider a container’s compatibility with OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogen Standard, among other regulations.
Keep in mind also that the color of your storage container also plays an important role in medical waste. While most colors are not regulated at the federal level (red for biohazardous waste and sharps being the exception), it’s industry practice to use a yellow container for chemotherapy waste, black for P-listed drugs and blue for non-RCRA pharmaceutical wastes.
An important part of choosing your hazardous waste storage container also involves choosing the right label that must be placed on the containers.
RCRA regulations dictate that containers must include proper labeling, marking and placarding, in some states hazardous waste labels must include:
- The composition and physical state of the waste
- A statement that calls attention to the hazardous properties of the waste
- Name and address of the generator
- The date when accumulation began
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